Grace Episcopal Church · Photo: Doug Kerr from Upstate New York · CC BY-SA 2.0At 13.8%, unemployment in Triangle is higher than in 98% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Triangle are D for jobs and income and B− for walkability. 6% of workers work from home (New York 15%). About one in seven work in Triangle itself; outside it, Binghamton draws the most (12%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Triangle, in a few figures
What’s behind Triangle’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Triangle is better than 14% of U.S. towns, #704 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Triangle’s grade up ($71,875, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Triangle could be anywhere from D to B−.
A workday in Triangle: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 980 residents head out to work, 156 work right here, and 1,156 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.15 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Triangle ends
Where Triangle clocks in
12% of workers
9% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Inside Triangle’s 1,312 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Triangle, 2013 → 2023: 1,145 → 1,312. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Triangle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Triangle, about 29 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Triangle workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,088 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far it is to work from Triangle
About 18% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Triangle walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Triangle is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns, #494 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,155 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.6% of Triangle households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Triangle’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,969 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,700, Triangle comes 4,198th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 10 | Laurel Hollow NY | 1,949 | $250K | 3.5% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,196 | Dublin TX | 3,400 | $53K | 32.3% | 4.1% | 7% | D |
| 4,197 | Nekoosa WI | 2,402 | $46K | 16.6% | 5.2% | 11% | D |
| 4,198 | Triangle NY | 2,727 | $72K | 19.0% | 13.8% | 14% | D |
| 4,199 | Indian Hills TX | 2,961 | $33K | 66.8% | 3.4% | 0% | D |
| 4,200 | Manistique MI | 2,868 | $38K | 18.4% | 3.3% | 41% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,969 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Triangle, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns around Triangle
The biggest share goes to Greene (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Triangle workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triangle | – | D | B− | 29 min | $71,875 |
| Lisle | under 3% | D | C+ | 28 min | $69,375 |
| Willet | under 3% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| Barker | under 3% | C− | D | 27 min | $64,348 |
| Smithville | under 3% | C− | D | 29 min | $70,433 |
| Greene | 4% | C+ | B− | 23 min | $73,481 |
Same-state neighbors only. Willet: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Triangle’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Triangle: questions
What is the median household income in Triangle?
$71,875 (±$15,661) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Triangle?
19.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Triangle?
29 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Triangle work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Binghamton (12%, 18 mi), Union (9%, 17 mi), Dickinson (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Triangle walkable?
Triangle is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Triangle without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Triangle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Triangle
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.